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enough at the bottom of a nullah was our friend. On 

 seeing us he got up and took a few paces forward and 

 then with an angry grunt charged up the bank at Morey, 

 who accommodated him with the point of his spear. On 

 being speared the pig retired, but it was only for a very 

 short time for he again rushed up and again Morey sent 

 him back discomfited. In this last encounter the boar 

 must have been fatally speared, for he seemed to have 

 had enough and crawled away among the ditches. As 

 we could not follow we sent some of the villagers to see 

 if they could see anything of the pig, and they very 

 soon came to where he was lying: a few clods thrown 

 very soon showed that his noble spirit had fled ! ! ! 



I have not got this boar's measurement, but he must 

 have been fully 36" to 38" and had a vast neck and shoul- 

 ders and a pair of magnificent tushes, though, I believe, 

 a little too curved to cut freely, and that is what must 

 have saved Morey and the horse. 



Quite satisfied with our morning's sport and rather 

 done up we turned homewards. On our way we came 

 to a very extensive Mior or grass field, and it looked too 

 tempting to let it go untried. Before entering it Morey 

 changed mounts getting on a 13-2 pony. The grass was 

 rather high, and in some places it came right up to the 

 men's shoulders. After proceeding a short distance there 

 were shouts of something having gone ahead; on riding 

 up we saw nothing till the waving of the grass to the 

 right showed us that the beaters were right. We rode 

 on the left of the pig in order to make him break ; but 



